about me
I am a self-taught artist and I have been working with machine embroidery for ten years. The technique I use is basically a darning stitch – I drop the feed-teeth on the machine so that the fabric can be freely manipulated by hand. I work on a 1950s cast-iron Singer sewing machine which I know would originally have been used in this way to darn clothes. I love the fact that such a practical and domestic function can be used now in such a contemporary and creative way.Each picture I make is a tiny narrative which could be extended in the viewer’s mind according to their own personal interpretation. My ideas are born from random musings, direct experience, comments overheard and misheard, childhood memories and everyday observations. Dark humour, stark emotion and utter nonsense are all major elements of my work, as are words and the marriage of text and image.